As experiences of poor therapy and illness proceed to emerge about Trevor Reed, an American jailed in Russia for over two years, stress is being placed on U.S. officers to get Reed and different prisoners house.

Reed, 30, a former U.S. Marine, was arrested in Moscow in August 2019 after being charged with allegedly assaulting two Russian law enforcement officials. Reed denied all prices, and his father Joey Reed beforehand instructed Newsweekthat the decide "refused to listen to any of the proof, and so they had already determined what they'll do."

Regardless of this, Reed was sentenced to 9 years in jail in July 2020.

Because the battle to get Reed launched from custody continues, new experiences have emerged from U.S. officers in Russia relating to poor detainment circumstances and a lot of illnesses that Reed has suffered. This contains experiences that Reed might have lately contracted tuberculosis whereas behind bars.

"In December #TrevorReed had extended publicity to a different prisoner with energetic tuberculosis," a spokesperson for the U.S. Embassy in Russia tweeted on Wednesday. "Trevor now experiences he's coughing up blood and has not obtained medical take care of it."

The spokesperson known as on Russian officers to "give Trevor correct medical therapy; higher but, launch him."

Joey Reed additionally backed up experiences of his son's poor therapy and sickness throughout his earlier dialog with Newsweek.

"Our son is in a Stalin-era Gulag in the midst of the forest someplace and dwelling actually in one thing you'll see out of a film," Reed mentioned. "He is usually in solitary confinement."

Moreover, Jonathan Franks, a spokesperson for the household, launched a press release saying that Reed "was subjected to a prolonged, close-contact publicity to a prisoner who had energetic [tuberculosis] in December...regardless of starting post-exposure prophylaxis for different inmates, Russian authorities have refused to do the identical for Trevor and have to date refused to check him."

"Any suggestion by Russian authorities that they've supplied Trevor significant medical care is patently false," Franks added.

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Former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed continues to be detained in Russia on prices that he says are false. As a report emerged that he might have contracted tuberculosis, renewed requires Reed to be launched had been seen throughout social media. Right here, Reed will be seen in a holding cell in Moscow in 2020.Dimitar Dilkoff/Getty

These experiences spotlight the cruel circumstances which can be allegedly confronted by American detainees in Russia. Particularly, comparable comparisons had been drawn from Reed's case to Paul Whelan, one other former Marine presently jailed in Russia.

Whelan's household spoke to Newsweek this previous January, stating, "We're grateful that, at a time when the White Home is making an attempt to discourage an unlawful invasion of Ukraine by Russia, that [U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken] nonetheless took the chance to lift Paul's case and that of Trevor Reed."

"It's this kind of continued engagement with the Russian authorities that appears integral to discovering a decision and securing Paul's freedom," the household added.

Renewed efforts and requires each Reed's and Whelan's launch from custody had been seen throughout social media after the tuberculosis report was tweeted Wednesday.

"Trevor Reed is in a gulag for no different cause than the very fact he's a United States Marine," Franks tweeted.

"I stay extraordinarily involved in regards to the well being and security of my constituent, Texan Marine Veteran Trevor Reed," tweeted Consultant August Pfluger (R-Texas). "He has been wrongfully detained in Russia for over 900 days. Most lately uncovered to a different prisoner with energetic tuberculosis."

"This shameful therapy of harmless American, #TrevorReed, by the Putin regime is unacceptable," added Consultant Michael McCaul (R-Texas). "The false prices towards Trevor Reed and Paul Whelan should be dropped to allow them to return house to the U.S. and to his household. Now."

Because the experiences emerged, U.S. officers expressed assurance that negotiations in an effort to launch Reed and Whelan had been persevering with.

"We wish to get Paul and Trevor house as quickly as potential," U.S. Nationwide Safety Adviser Jake Sullivan mentioned Sunday. "And we're actively engaged in an effort to try this."

A spokesperson for the U.S. State Division instructed Newsweek, "Secretary Blinken has raised the instances of Paul Whelan and Trevor Reed in his discussions with Overseas Minister Lavrov. We proceed to press the Russian authorities to launch Paul and Trevor."

"We're involved about experiences that Trevor had extended publicity to a different prisoner with energetic tuberculosis and discover the dearth of medical consideration and care troubling," the spokesperson added. "We urge the Authorities of Russia to offer Trevor correct medical therapy."

Newsweek has additionally reached out to the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C., for remark.